Update

So these last few weeks have been pretty good. Got to ride outside without much snow on the trails. Last weekend did two 3 hour rides on Saturday and Sunday; recovered pretty well and Sunday's ride was a lot better than Saturday's. Got to go for a ride outside again on Friday, and it was very nice. 60 degrees outside ment I could ride in just knee warmers and a short sleeved jersey. Today, a 3 1/2 hour ride was planned, and I got 3 hours of riding in, but it wasn't exactly how I wanted it to go. We met some people on the other side of the forest for a long ride on the Stoopid course. Rode the first trail of the race out, then came back the direction of the Stoopid. About an hour into the ride, a stick caught my derraileur and pulled it into the spokes, breaking it. We fiddled with a singulator for about an hour, but couldn't get it to work. Since I was riding the Rush, I wouldn't be able to singlespeed it without the singulator, because of the amount of suspention. So we took the chain off and I hiked up to where I could finally coast down the last bit of downhill to the car. We drove back to the house, got something to eat, slept for a bit, and then I got my 29er ready to go for the second ride. My dad and I left from the house, but just 30 minutes into the ride, my dad's chain snapped. This one wasn't so hard to fix, but it was really frustrating. We finally got on our way again, and headed up the road to Bald Knob; an extremely rocky ridgetop trail. Out of all the trails I've ridden on the 29er, this was by far the hardest. I was getting bounced around like crazy, and on those kinds of rocks, 29 inch wheels don't 'float' over the rocks like people claim they do. So that was about 2 hours of riding, putting my total ride/hike time to 3 1/2. We came back out of the forest in the dark, but the second ride was definitely worth it. And tomorrow we're leaving for Disney World. We haven't gone anywhere for spring break (our schools have it here because of Penn State) for 5 years, and this will be our last one. I was a little dissapointed because the weather here is so nice to ride, but it's supposed to get colder so I don't really mind. We're getting back Thursday night and I'll find a derrailleur for my Rush on Friday so I can ride it in the Michaux Mash.